Ambassador Arrion made the disclosure when he paid a courtesy call on the Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, to pledge the support of the EU to the new leadership of the intervention agency
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Ekere said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that a policy shift to devolve more operational powers to NDDC state offices was ongoing
The NDDC boss acknowledged the commission’s new arrangement where it reports to the Presidency through the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, saying it will actually add value to the development of the nine oil producing states
Reacting to Oke’s claim in a statement signed by the late Adefarati’s son, Gboyega Adefarati, the scions of the two political giants cautioned Oke against dropping the names of their patriarchs, stressing that the AD’s governorship candidate and their fathers had nothing in common in political orientation and moral principle
The chamber rejected the nomination of three members on grounds that their nomination contravened the NDDC Act of 2007
President Muhammadu Buhari was spot on during the week with the nomination of Ndoma-Egba for appointment as Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission
Mohammed said this when she inspected the site of the flag-off of the implementation of the Report at Numuu-Tekuru, Bodo, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State on Sunday
A statement issued in Port Harcourt by the commission’s Head of Corporate Affairs, Chijioke Amu-Nnadi, said the Rivers State Government had already taken delivery of the kits
The governor spoke on Friday when the NDDC Acting Managing Managing Director, Ibim Semenitari, visited him at his residence in Owerri, the Imo State capital
The Chairman of the Senate Committee probing the issue, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, while briefing newsmen disclosed that the amount due for payment to the NDDC by the NLNG and the Ecological Fund Office, which they allegedly refused to pay for over 16 years, is colossal
In a statement on Wednesday, the Director of Publicity of the Restoration Campaign Organisation, Jonathan Obuebite, alleged that the said funds were being diverted into Sylva’s campaign and his election arrangement through “illegal” award of contracts to the APC candidate’s cronies by the NDDC
According to them, since the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission wants to reap from where he did not sow, he has become a liability to the APC in the state
‘I am banking on the people to secure my votes. I am banking on you the proud Ijaw people who have never been defeated and I am banking on my record of service and my performance’
Having scanned the environment sufficiently and discovered that Timi Alaibe is their headache in the PDP, their warped ploy now is to make so much noise, tell so much lies and throw mud as much as possible, in the forlorn belief that leaders and members of our great party, the All Progressives Congress, would fall into a trap of presenting a weak opponent in the December 5, 2015 governorship election
The PDP State Secretary, Godspower Keku, in a statement in Yenagoa, said Alaibe’s antecedents do not recommend him as someone who could be a good governor or have anything to offer
Ukura said this on Wednesday in Abuja after submitting three special reports to the National Assembly
A letter, made available to The Eagle Online in Asaba on Thursday, addressed to the commission’s Managing Director, co-signed by the President-General of the community, Chief Emeakpor Owhe, and the Secretary, Genesis Ominabor, flayed why the project had lingered for 10 years
The governors said they are intent on executing major legacy projects
The Publicity Directorate of the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday began a “comprehensive nationwide performance tour” to publicise projects executed by its elected and appointed officials at all levels of government.
This was disclosed on Monday while the delegates were speaking on the report of the Conference Committee on Power Devolution